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THIS WAY OUT Rundown
Program #572
(Distributed 03/15/99)
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The oral herstories of some "Gay Old Girls" illuminate the past
Sweden bans job discrimination but anti-bias billboards are
banned in New Orelans, a gay California teacher will get his students
back, trannys petition Prince Charles for justice in Argentina, and
a court challenge to Puerto Rico`s sodomy law is upheld
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Opening teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity
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SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Sweden bans job discrimination; state labor board
halts student brain drain from CA gay teacher`s class; anti-discrimination
billboards are banned in New Orleans; a New England Presbytery Commission
allows an openly-gay man to serve as an elder of his Stamford, CT
congregation; a 3-judge N.J. panel splits 3 ways on a lesbian parenting case,
while the MA Supreme Judicial Court hears another lesbian parental custody
dispute; former sex worker Juan Chavez pleads guilty in an L.A. courtroom to
the murder of 5 gay men; Vice President Al Gore issues a strong statement in
support of the newly-reintroduced Hate Crimes Prevention Act, even as hate
crimes bills die in Indiana and probably in Oklahoma, while the Hawai`i state
Senate unanimously approves theirs; Ireland`s national health care system
will assist in the return of gay-bashed and currently comatose literary figure
Robert Drake to his U.S. home; arsonists hit a soon-to-open Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida lesbigay nightclub twice in one week, while Miami`s oldest gay club is
denied a permit for male strippers, despite there being numerous hetero strip
clubs in the same neighborbhood; trannys petition Prince Charles for justice
during his Buenos Aires visit; the ACLU`s court challenge to Puerto Rico`s
sodomy law is upheld; and Juno-winning openly-gay singer Rufus Wainwright
feels occasionally "surrounded by Ewoks" [compiled and written by CINDY
FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, MARTIN
RICE, REX WOCKNER, CHRIS AMBIDGE, ALEJANDRA SARDA, GREG GORDON & LUCIA
CHAPPELLE, and anchored by CINDY FRIEDMAN and LEO GARCIA]
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SEGMENT #2 - "TWO" I.D. by popular lesbian fumorist Kate Clinton [:15] +
There`s a tendency to think of the days before Stonewall as a time of total
repression for gays and lesbians in the U.S., but all during the first half of
the 20th Century creative and daring people managed to survive -- and
sometimes even thrive -- in a world that despised them as deviants. The 13
"GAY OLD GIRLS" featured in ZSA ZSA GERSHICK`s collection of lesbian memoirs
provide a rare glimpse into the lives of women-loving-women in such diverse
places and periods as Alabama in the `20s, Chicago in the `30s, New York in
the `40s, Texas in the `50s, and San Francisco in the `60s. They range from
women who were openly lesbian from adolescence to women who came out after
first leading wife-and-mother lives -- and in at least one case while
continuing to do so. This Way Out`s CHRIS ALLEN chats with oral herstory
gatherer Gershick about her landmark work (and highlights the lives of 3 women
in the book: `50s lesbian pulp fiction writer Valerie Taylor; suburban
housewife Jane Stevenson, who lived happily with her husband, son and female
lover; and EDYTHE EYDE, publisher of the pioneering lesbian newsletter "Vice
Versa", whose original music -- excerpts from "I`m Gonna Sit Right Down And
Write My Butch A Letter", "A Fairer Tomorrow", and "Faerie In Tulare" -- are
heard during this segment; and with dramatized snippets from the book
performed by LEIGH CURRAN and WINSHIP COOK) [15:40]
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CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY
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TOTAL PROGRAM TIME
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STATION PROMO COPY
ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON “THIS WAY OUT”, THE ORAL HERSTORIES OF SOME "GAY OLD
GIRLS" ILLUMINATE THE PAST. IN THE NEWS, SWEDEN BANS JOB DISCRIMINATION
BUT ANTI-BIAS BILLBOARDS ARE BANNED IN NEW ORELANS, A GAY CALIFORNIA
TEACHER WILL GET HIS STUDENTS BACK, TRANNYS PETITION PRINCE CHARLES FOR
JUSTICE IN ARGENTINA, AND A COURT CHALLENGE TO PUERTO RICO`S SODOMY LAW IS
UPHELD.
THOSE STORIES AND MORE THIS WEEK ON “THIS WAY OUT:THE INTERNATIONAL
LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE”,
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